For a season finale, that felt very…tame. When my east coast sources (no, not my parents, stop looking at me like that) told me that it would leave me hanging, visions of How I Met Your Mother season 9 danced through my head. Little did I know I would contend with Boxcar Kid Sheldon and the gang. Though the writers did seem to have it out for everybody. Penny and Leonard got engaged! Woohoo! And the audience rejoices. Then they pull out their calendars to bet on how many times the wedding will almost fall through. Raj has, as Sheldon...

Five pages of notes later, I’m reviewing my second Breaking Bad episode and seriously considering starting from Season One. I have to say, a mix of the episode—and then everyone’s reactions to the episode—made the finale experience. I vaguely understood what happened in the first half of this episode, last Sunday, and from what I could see it set itself up for forks. Would Walt return? Would he find someplace else as departed as New Hampshire? The episode’s so packed, so full of action, I’m only going to illustrate comments from specific places. Then comments from forum chats, because everyone...